Exactly what fuels irrational hatred of Obama?

The current fake controversy over President Barack Obama’s use of executive orders has many conservatives up in arms. The impression, of course, is that he is issuing so many executive orders that he is, in effect, setting himself up as some type of law-making monarch instead of letting Congress make the laws as stated in the constitution.

As of this writing, President Obama has issued 184 executive orders. President George W. Bush issued 291 executive orders. I wonder why conservatives didn’t think that was excessive?

The Republican-led Congress passed a resolution to sue the president because of a decision that he made to delay parts of the Affordable Care Act. The funny thing is that he delayed those parts of the ACA at the request of Congress. Isn’t it strange that they would sue him for doing something that they asked him to do?

I know there are people in this state who hate the president. And spare me the explanations of how you just don’t agree with his policies. The fact is a lot of people hate him and have hated him since day one. Upon his election, people — claiming he wanted to take everyone’s guns away, though he never campaigned on gun control — immediately went out and bought guns. And let’s not forget the never-ending claims of him not being a “real American.”

Could it be race-related? I’m not saying it is, but you have to wonder.

Onto the delivery truck, where diesel fuel is converted into carbon dioxide. Our journey ends at the landfill where decomposing copies of the Montgomery Advertiser add to groundwater contamination.

Josh Moon, ever the environmentalist, can stop this tragedy. The Advertiser can be enjoyed just as much on mobile devices and home computers. We already own these devices, so no additional pollution will be created.

Josh, don’t be a hypocrite. Join with me to insist the MA go to a digital-only format. But alas, I am sure Josh is aware of the adage “dollars for print, dimes for digital and pennies for mobile.” It just depends on whose ox is being gored.

Bill Ainsworth

Montgomery

It’s time to put a world government policy into practice

Every society needs a government, and we live in a world society. The same reasons used to justify any government can be used to justify a world government.

A world government today is as necessary for the nations of the earth as a national government, or a state government, or a city government. I recommend a world federation under a constitution modeled after that of the United States, which would define and limit the powers of the general government, guarantee the rights of the states and individuals, contain a system of checks and balances and separation of powers, and provide for representation of nations according to their populations.

Such a world federal government would provide the mechanism to settle international disputes without war. International war is a symptom of international anarchy, and world government is a solution.

Daniel Haulman

Montgomery

Watergate scandal, My Lai anniversaries are all but ignored

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (passed in Congress with only two dissenting votes) and the 40th anniversary of the resignation of President Richard Nixon. I have good reason to remember both.

In 1964, I was assigned to the 62nd Aviation Company which was sent to Vietnam in response to the resolution and marked the beginning of the build-up of U.S. forces in that country. In 1974, I was assigned to the Army Presidential Flight Detachment. I didn’t fly the mission that carried President Nixon and his family from the White House for the final time, but was present when the Army One crew returned and related Nixon’s comments.

It is my opinion that the Watergate scandal and the My Lai massacre are two of the major reasons for the Communist victory in Vietnam.

Why are these two events ignored by the media today? I think we are so wrapped in our worship of college football, money-grubbing football coaches, and drug-using, brawling football players, there is no time left for little things such as history. Of course, learning history would further our education, and we certainly couldn’t have that.